I unexpectedly took a little break from writing this past week as I devoted all available time to the final prep for Gleek Retreat.  Now that Gleek Retreat is behind me, I’m struggling at where to begin.  It’s that same feeling like when you’ve been gone on vacation and, when you finally get home from [...]

Ah yes, potty training.  Every parent has to go through it but how we go through it completely independent upon the parent, the child, and the circumstances at that particular time.  It amazes me how different it was to potty train my oldest in comparison to my youngest.  So, I’m wondering….what are your potty training [...]

One of my absolute most favorite smells in the whole wide world — more than fresh cut grass or brownies and cookies baking in the oven — is the smell of my kids when they get out of the bath.  That brief instant before they get lathered up with lotion.  Before they put on their [...]

My iPhone serves so many purposes in my life…it’s almost scary!  Phone. Calendar. Texting. Twitter. Approving comments for the blog. Note taking. Music. Oh, the list could go on!  But one of the biggest ways that my iPhone serves in my daily life is Kid Entertainment! My kids knew exactly how to work my iPhone [...]

Between Memorial Day and Labor Day we will be celebrating 22 birthdays, weddings, and graduations.  That doesn’t include our anniversary and Father’s Day.  That all adds up to a lot of greeting cards! Now, I’d love to say that I hand make all those cards but I don’t.  I’m just not that crafty, nor do [...]

The other night I was click-click-clicking away on my laptop, as I usually do once the kids are in bed, and my husband said to me, “You do A LOT of email.”  Huh, I guess I do.  I was kind of taken back by his comment because I never really thought that I did A [...]

Last month I tweeted about how some lawmakers in California were trying to get laws passed to ban toys in McDonald’s happy meals.  Their reasoning — combating childhood obesity.  Apparently it’s the toy in the Happy Meal that is making our children fat. Ok, they aren’t exactly arguing that it is the toy that is [...]

This should probably go under one of my Mommy Confessions because I am so terrible about displaying photos of my kids around my house.  It’s not that I don’t love having pictures of my girls on my walls or displayed on shelves, it’s just that I’m so bad about actually printing and then framing those [...]

I am hanging my head in shame over here as I tell you that I am, indeed, one of the five people who did not see AVATAR in the theater.  This was a film that both my husband and I really wanted to see in the theater but things just didn’t work out for that [...]

This is more of a “Me Confession” than a “Mommy Confession” but it something I wanted to talk about for a while, nonetheless. Public Bathrooms. They completely freak me out. It’s really has nothing to do with thought that the bathroom might be filthy or stink like something died in their or even the looking [...]